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Gabon medicinal plants

Latest version published by Herbier National du Gabon on 02 June 2023 Herbier National du Gabon
Publication date:
02 June 2023
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Description

This checklist is the medicinal plants from Gabon. It is an output of the BID-AF2020-194-USE project. Data on medicinal plants are important to best support decision-makers and users. The key policy questions and data challenges that the project is addressing to increase the uptake of primary biodiversity data into decision making processes is focused on the following question: What species are used as medicinal plants in Gabon? To answer this question, a list of medicinal plants has been compiled from the book “Les plantes utiles du Gabon” (Raponda Walker & Roger Sillans 1965). A taxonomic update of the scientific names taken from this book has been treated. Therefore, this list includes the correct scientific names, vernacular names and uses that can be medicinal, cosmetic and mystico-magic.

Data Records

The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 925 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Bissiengou P, Mboma R, Mba Nzuè M-T, Engone Obiang NL (2023): Gabon medicinal plants. v1.2. Herbier National du Gabon. Dataset/Checklist. https://ipt-gabon.gbif.fr/resource?r=medecinal-plants&v=1.2

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Herbier National du Gabon. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 31dc1507-a6e1-4233-a8df-c7a78596a7e4.  Herbier National du Gabon publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Checklist; Medicinal; Gabon

Contacts

Pulchérie Engone Obiang
  • Originator
Researcher
Herbier National du Gabon
Arboratum de Sibang BP 1156
BP 1156 Libreville Libreville
Estuaire
GA
+24162461946
Raymonde Mboma
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Researcher
IRET/CENAREST
243 Avenue Félix Houphouët Boigny
Libreville
GA
Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Researcher
Herbier National du Gabon
Arboratum de Sibang BP 1156
Libreville
GA
+24162461946
Martial-T Mba Nzue
  • Originator
Technicien supérieur
IPHAMETRA
Arboratum de Sibang BP 1156
Libreville
GA
Raymonde Bissiengou
  • Metadata Provider
Researcher
IPHAMETRA/CENAREST
Arboretum de Sibang
BP 1156 Libreville
Estuaire
GA
+241 66 04 21 63
Pulchérie Bissiengou
  • Point Of Contact
Researcher
IPHAMETRA/CENAREST
Arboretum de Sibang
BP 1156 Libreville Libreville
Estuaire
GA
+241 66 04 21 63
Nestor ENGONE OBIANG
  • Publisher
Researcher
IPHAMETRA/CENAREST
Arboretum de Sibang
BP 1156 Libreville
Estuaire
GA
+24162461946

Geographic Coverage

This data come from Gabon

Bounding Coordinates South West [-3.996, 8.789], North East [2.46, 14.678]

Taxonomic Coverage

These data represent 114 families of medicinal plants.

Family ACANTHACEAE, AGAVACEAE, AMARANTACEAE, AMARYLLIDACEAE, ANACARDIACEAE, ANNONACEAE, APOCYNACEAE, ARACEAE, ASCLEPIADACEAE, BALANOPHORACEAE, BALSAMINACEAE, BEGONIACEAE, BIGNONIACEAE, BIXACEAE, BOMBACACEAE, BORAGINACEAE, BROMELIACEAE, BURSERACEAE, CANNABINACEAE, CANNACEAE, CAPPARIDACEAE, CAPRIFOLIACEAE, CARICACEAE, CARYOPHYLLACEAE, CASUARINACEAE, COMMELINACEAE, ASTERACEAE, CONVOLVULACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, CRUCIFERACEAE, CUCURBITACEAE, CYCADACEAE, CYPERACEAE, DICHAPETALACEAE, DILLENIACEAE, DIOSCOREACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE, EUPHORBIACEAE, FICOIDACEAE, FLACOURTIACEAE, FLAGELLARIACEAE, GNETACEAE, GRAMINEAE, GUTTIFERACEAE, HALORRHAGACEAE, HUMIRIACEAE, HYPERICACEAE, ICACINACEAE, IRIDACEAE, LAURACEAE, LECYTHIDACEAE, LILIACEAE, LINACEAE, LOGANIACEAE, LORANTHACEAE, MALVACEAE, MELIACEAE, MENISPERMACEAE, MUSACEAE, MYRISTICACEAE, MYRTACEAE, NYCTAGINACEAE, NYMPHÉACEAE, OLACACEAE, OLÉACEAE, ORCHIDACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, PALMACEAE, PANDACEAE, PANDANACEAE, PASSIFLORACEAE, PEDALIACEAE, PIPERACEAE, PLOMBAGINACEAE, PODOSTEMONACEAE, POLYGONACEAE, RHAMNACEAE, ROSACEAE, SAPINDACEAE, SAPINDACEAE, SAPOTACEAE, SCYTOPÉTALACEAE, SMILACACEAE, STERCULIACEAE, TILIACEAE, TYPHACEAE, URTICACEAE, VIOLACEAE, ZINGIBERACEAE

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1965-01-01 / 2023-01-01

Project Data

In most African countries the few databases that exist are underused. For instance, specimen data are exploited by researchers only when they are planning field trips. As strategies to transmit relevant information on plant biodiversity to decision-makers are deficient, this project aims to mobilize biodiversity data and categorize them according to their utilization by local populations, their importance in conservation and their commercial use, in order to support their integration into policy and decision-making processes

Title Mobilization and use of botanical data as decision-making tools in Gabon
Identifier BID-AF2020-194-USE
Funding JRS Biodiversity Foundation GBIF

The personnel involved in the project:

Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang
  • Publisher

Sampling Methods

List of medicinal plants from the book "Plantes Utiles du Gabon".

Study Extent GABON
Quality Control The species matching tool from GBIF was used for scientific name checking.

Method step description:

  1. All information was compiled from the book "Plantes Utiles du Gabon"

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Raponda-Walker, A., & Sillans, R. (1961). Les plantes utiles du Gabon.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 31dc1507-a6e1-4233-a8df-c7a78596a7e4
https://ipt-gabon.gbif.fr/resource?r=medecinal-plants